Hurrah! Some people still have some privacy! NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails
NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails
The NSA's new data center in Bluffdale, Utah, which is expected to open later this year and will contain some of the world's fastest supercomputers. (George Frey/Getty)
by Justin Elliott
ProPublica, July 23, 2013, 12:39 p.m.
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"There's no central method to search an email at this time with the way our records are set up, unfortunately," NSA Freedom of Information Act officer Cindy Blacker told me last week.
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I filed a request last week for emails between NSA employees and employees of the National Geographic Channel over a specific time period. The TV station had aired a friendly documentary on the NSA and I want to better understand the agency's public-relations efforts.
A few days after filing the request, Blacker called, asking me to narrow my request since the FOIA office can search emails only “person by person," rather than in bulk. The NSA has more than 30,000 employees.
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It’s actually common for large corporations to do bulk searches of their employees email as part of internal investigations or legal discovery.
“It’s just baffling,” says Mark Caramanica of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. “This is an agency that’s charged with monitoring millions of communications globally and they can’t even track their own internal communications in response to a FOIA request.”
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